Filament

A NIGHT OF MOVING IMAGES Thursday, September 4, 2025, 7 PM, Rhizome DC A Night of Moving Images was established with the goal of bringing together artists and filmmakers from across the DVM. This year, it welcomes its first VR submission, works of animation and nonfiction, and a number of returning voices. The legacies of public parks, the creative processes of jazz musicians, and ephemeral glimpses of the sublime are all proffered for us to consider. The works in this program prove once again there’s no shortage of experimentation in the region, and together they embody the strange and beautiful world we live in. The official selection will be preceded by a screening of films created during a workshop held in July by Mt. Plantry. The Film & Video Open Call is organized by Alexander Atienza, Pat Doyen, Rebecca Reynolds, and Vincent Terlizzi. Thanks to Layne Garrett for his support and Alex Szantos for the bumper video. Please consider donating so we can continue providing challenging, community-driven cultural programming. Filament is a new screening initiative building an audience for independent and art films in Washington DC. Rhizome DC is a community-run arts organization, alternative music venue, and DIY screening space founded in 2015 and based in the Takoma neighborhood of Washington, DC.

PROGRAM 1: DISTANT VOICES

SWOL Eva Grandoni, 2025, 4’32”, digital Two picnicking pals are enjoying a nice afternoon in the park when a portly bee interrupts the festivities. This uninvited guest causes one hungry picnicker to lose all bodily autonomy after enduring a grotesque transformation, causing them to bumble through the world like never before. But a question remains: Will they get to finish their meal?
PRESS POUND TO CONNECT Alexander Fingrutd, 2019, 2’31”, 16 mm to digital This film was hand processed, shot on 16 mm film, and created using a masking technique and appropriated images. The nine equal parts reference the Pound Symbol on a telephone keypad. Here, it is used as a symbol for connection.
ONE HUNDRED WHITE TRUCKS Brice Goldberg, 2024, 4’13”, 16 mm to digital In Richmond, Virginia, a filmmaker’s walkabout reveals a monochromatic landscape of behemoth motor vehicles. This film is an exploration in structural methodology and analog filmmaking techniques.
CAROLYN DRIVE Alex Menick, 2024, 6’, Super 8 to digital A young mother listens to distressing radio broadcasts that warn of an impending nuclear attack. As she waits for her children to return home from school, the interference begins to take hold.
A POEM Vasilios Papaioannu, 2025, 3’, 16 mm to digital In an underground garage, a voice message becomes the testament of a love left in limbo, while fleeting images allude to the moment that led to it.
EVERY TIME YOU RECALL Jo Jovel, 2024, 4’40”, 16 mm Memory often changes as you recall important moments of time over and over again. Is what you recalled once again true to life, or is it just a fragment of light sifting through your mind?

PROGRAM 2: INESCAPABLE RHYTHMS

THIRST Danielle d’Amico, 2022, 4’22”, VR Thirst is a 360 virtual reality experience where I drink an entire fish bowl filled with water. The user experiences this act from the vantage point of being contained inside the fishbowl - first entirely underwater and then slowly surrounded by the condensation of my breath on the inner side of the glass globe.
.SHUFFLE .TICK RUN Taylor Elise Colimore, 2022, 2’48”, digital shuffle.tick run is a bold, confident, and escapist audio-visual experience that provides insight into the inner workings of my hyperactive and creative mind. The creation of .shuffle.tick run began with audio production using live coding techniques (sonic pi) and ended with an edit of 360 footage of my daily routes in the city (Richmond, VA).
INSTAR Jessie Kraemer, 2024, 7’, digital Two people talk on the phone for a long time.
BATS Sara El Moustakim, 2025, 9’29”, digital Adulthood is a universal experience, marked by the struggle to define who we are and what we’re truly capable of. But what happens when we reach for something we thought we left behind? Meet BATS, a team of adult gymnasts rewriting the rules of the sport, pushing their bodies and minds beyond what they thought was possible—and proving it’s never too late to chase your dreams.
SOUND AND HARMONY Adam Beuttler, 2024, 13’, digital The film follows Alvin Trask, a passionate jazz musician as he reflects on his career and his current role as a professor at Montgomery College. He uses his wisdom and experience to prepare his student musicians in the MC Jazz ensemble for their grand end of the semester recital.
COMMUSICATION William Love IV, 2024, 2’08”, digital Aimed to represent a phenomenon I describe as “Commusication” inspired by my experience with jazz drumming. Jazz is a unique musical language and I find the improvisational component to be a great outlet for experimentation and collaboration. The performance was entirely improvised as my brother and I communicated through our instruments.

PROGRAM 3: MEMORY & DESIRE

ĒOSTRA Gabriel Achilles Bellone, 2024, 2’42”, 16 mm to digital with live elements Ēostra, The Spring Goddess.
GLIMPSES Natasha Woods, 2023, 6’20”, Super 8 to digital Inspired by the films of Marie Menken and the Bread and Roses Strike of 1912, Glimpses constellates different moments of history as it wanders through the Park of Roses, a public park in the heart of Columbus Ohio.
WHOSE NOSTALGIA? Nick Karpinski, 2025, 4’16”, digital Whose Nostalgia? grapples with ways in which our bodies are entangled with capitalism’s false promises.
MONUMENT Jeremy Drummond, 2025, 17’27”, Super 8 to digital Monument is an experimental documentary that pairs chemically-altered Super 8mm film footage of the decaying monuments of Presidents Park (Croaker, VA) with original and community-sourced video footage captured on Monument Avenue (Richmond, VA) during the Covid-19 pandemic.
CHIU QUON Mishkh, 2025, 49”, Super 8 to digital A glimpse into a bustling morning at a Chicago Chinese bakery.